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The Bible's first five books, bundled like a boxset nobody dares to binge.
means The collective name for the first five books of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament — Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy — traditionally attributed to Moses.
from From Greek 'pentateuchos,' stitched together from 'penta' (five) and 'teuchos' (originally a tool or vessel, later 'case' or 'scroll-case,' and by extension 'book'). So literally something like 'the five-scroll-case thing' — a word coined by Greek-speaking scholars to describe a set of five books treated as one unit, long before anyone called it a boxset.
- meaning
- Greek for five scrolls, not five mysteries
- jewish name
- called the Torah, the actual main event
- contents
- creation, exodus, and a LOT of laws
- authorship debate
- traditionally Moses, scholars say multiple hands